Tinkering: The Microevolution of Development

by Jamie A. Goode

Much recent research in evolutionary developmental biology has focused on the origin of new body plans. However, most evolutionary change at the population and species level consists of tinkering: small-scale alterations in developmental pathways within a single body plan. Such microevolutionary events have been well studied on a population genetic level and from the perspective of adaptive phenotypic evolution, but their developmental mechanisms...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470034297
• ISBN13: 9780470034293
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 9.2"